Some months ago I was with my mom, and some of her siblings. My uncles were a little drunk. And they were talking about all the fun they had as kids. In the suburbs in the 60’s playing outside all day.
I love the video games I played all day as I kid but I was kinda jealous.
it was back when life was real.
Yup, 60’s kids played outside whenever weather permitted, and sometimes when it didn’t. There was always a street game of football, baseball, or basketball, going on somewhere, often actually in the street, and then the ensueing arguments and fistfights. Those were the days.
The equivalent back in the fifties and sixties was the pinball machines. I envied anyone who played pinball because I rarely played them in my childhood and teen years. Our fun was enacted mostly outside the house. In my twenties when I finally had a fulltime job and enough money to indulge, I decided to visit a place where they had pinball machines. There, I could indulge my desire. For about two months I played the pinball machines on my days off. Then it was over. I've maybe played a pinball machine five times in the last thirty years. However, if I had one in my house, I might be playing it right now. But it's probably better that I couldn't play them much in my childhood. Basically a waste of time.